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scatter
Part of speech: VerbTo strew carelessly; disperse; drive in several directions; use wastefully; as, to scatter one's energies.
Part of speech: VerbTo be dispersed or dissipated; to separate and go in different directions, as a crowd.
Part of speech: NounScatterer.
Usage examples "scatter":- I've got to go to Brantford, but I shall leave word that they must look after your friend, and let you go the minute I send back word that the coast is clear for them to scatter." - "Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane", Roy Rockwood.
- Sir John did not scatter his papers broadcast. - "Curiosities of Impecuniosity", H. G. Somerville.
- Mark, they fix the fatal hook to the body- they drag him away to the spoliarium- they scatter new sand over the stage! - "The Last Days of Pompeii", Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.